LEARN TO BE A PERSONAL TRAINER
- start a fitness business
- improve an existing career
- develop strategies to improve your chances for success.
- stand out from other trainers
- conduct a personal audit and determines how to improve.
- grow a business through excellent service and results.
- welcome satisfied customers who generate new business.
Your clients will:
- Improve overall fitness.
- Enhance self-esteem.
- Target muscle groups for tone and strength.
- Improve health and wellness.
- Increase strength and endurance.
- Work on athletic programs or body transformation.
A student doesn’t need to be already working as a personal trainer to enrol however this course assumes you will already understand elements of human exercise and fitness, and the human body response to exercise.
This school offers a range of courses which you can combine into a quality Certificate in Personal Training (a specialism can be decided) or similar. Start with Personal Trainer Professional Practice and add 5 more modules from this list:
- Food Coaching,
- Sports Nutrition,
- Sports Psychology,
- Nutrition for Weight Loss,
- Wellness Coaching,
- Internet Marketing,
- Business Storytelling,
- Managing Innovation.
Brand yourself and grow your fitness business? Are you ready to take your career to a new level? Start Today!
Lesson Structure
There are 7 lessons in this course:
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Role of a personal trainer
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Personal training professionals
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Purpose of personal training
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Medical approval for exercise
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Barriers to exercise
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Major benefits of personal training
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Daily work and responsibilities of personal trainers
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Qualities of a personal trainer
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Desirable character traits of the personal trainer
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Core services on offer
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A personal trainer and their role in motivation
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Level of concern or tension (good stress)
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Success
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Knowledge of results
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Education or training the professionals
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What you need to know - expertise for success
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Basic components of physical fitness
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The human body
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Energy production
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Energy and exercise
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Considerations for effective business
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Expanding a personal training service
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Common types of personal trainers
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Business basics
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Expanding your services into other areas
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Specialised services
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Working with new clients
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Working with new clients – meet and greet
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Pre-screening
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Anthropometric measurements
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Summarise what you know about the client
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Working with clients to create fitness plans and programs
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Taking baseline measures & assessing progress
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The role of exercise in weight control
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Calculating ideal body weight
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Human movement & types of fitness programs
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Working with older adults
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Instructing young people
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Over-exercising
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Other exercise considerations
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Managing client departures
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Ending the trainer-client relationship
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Difficult clients
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Ending the relationship
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Finding new clients
Aims
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Explain the role of the personal trainer.
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Explain the qualities required by a personal trainer.
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Recommend broad areas of focus that a client should attend to in order to improve their training outcomes.
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Investigate ways to expand a personal training service.
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Explain how to introduce yourself as a personal trainer and start working with new clients.
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Develop fitness plans and programs according to the needs of clients.
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Explain how to manage client departures and terminate difficult clients.
If you are already working as a fitness instructor or a personal trainer this course is ideal for your:
- Professional development
- Skills development
- New business development
Important Additional Information
This is NOT a course in exercise and fitness. This
course is professional development for people in the fitness and exercise and
sports industry who want to develop themselves as a PT. It is not PT training
specifically. It asks you to question if you have what it takes to be a PT. Can
you build relationships you’re your clients? Students learn about customer
satisfaction and marketing in the context of personal training. The course is designed
for people to develop themselves to be unique and stand out from swathes of
other PTs.
Start today! Beat others, develop your competitive advantage!
